Assessing the Implications of Water Provisioning and Its Quality on Health Outcomes: A Micro level study in India Authors’ details

Abstract

Over the past few years, many nations have implemented a variety of initiatives, including policies and programs, with the sole purpose of enhancing the quality of drinking water to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 targets. Even though water seems to be often easily accessible, the poor quality is mostly as a result of environmental factors and subterranean minerals that contaminate the water. This paper attempts to compares two rural water supply sources in Nagla Chandi village in Uttar Pradesh, India: untreated groundwater available via borewells and RO water from a water filtering system. The study discovered that subterranean minerals are the primary pollutants of unprocessed water derived from borewells, that serve as the main supply of drinking water. Even though the water from the alternative systems, the Jivamritam water filter (RO) met all the requirements for water purity, it frequently breaks down, forcing the community members to drink untreated water from the hand dug wells. The study also reveals a high incidence of water-borne illness. It further makes recommendations for maintaining and operating the RO system effectively. For the Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSC) and other neighborhood organisations to regularly assess the quality of the water and take appropriate corrective action, the paper recommends lowering the cost of water testing for villages.